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Forested Lake Plains

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This ecoregion, to the east and partially south of the Peatlands (49a), grades from sections of peat in the northwest to more forest in the northeast and forest along the undulating lobes of the wider southern part. Hemists soils are interspersed in small patches in a number of sections between larger areas of wet forest Aqualfs, and forest Udalfs which predominate in the south. The topography is relatively flat with a gentle rising gradient from the Rainy River on the northern border to elevations as much as 75 m higher in the south. There is some evidence of human landscape modification of vegetation but most land is forest or bog except for some cleared land along the Rainy River and south of it for 15 to 20 km along its tributaries, the Big and Little Fork Rivers, and in the area around International Falls. About 60% of this ecoregion was wetlands and 25% deciduous forest in 2013.

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